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title: It is also fortunate that the language spoken in the groups so widel… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is also fortunate that the language spoken in the groups so widely diffused over the Pacific Ocean, has the same common structure, with only such differences as may be resolved into dialects. Who acts: history, language. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary H
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 3

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It is also fortunate that the language spoken in the groups so widely diffused over the Pacific Ocean, has the same common structure, with only such differences as may be resolved into dialects.

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**Who acts:** history, language · **What happens:** be, speak, diffuse, have, resolve · **To what, where:** language, groups, Pacific Ocean, same common structure, such differences, dialects · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (history, language), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:6:3
# text = It is also fortunate that the language spoken in the groups so widely diffused over the Pacific Ocean, has the same common structure, with only such differences as may be resolved into dialects.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
8	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	diffused	diffuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	differences	difference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | history |  |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | the language *not said here* |  | the groups |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **diffuse** | participle |  |  |  | the Pacific Ocean |  | widely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | the language | the same common structure |  |  |  | with such differences | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent structure=Patient |
| 5 | **resolve** | may · passive |  | such differences *not said here* |  | dialects |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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